“How long have we been fighting?” Bai Ling asked, holding Sasha, who looked exhausted, and streaking through the sky at a speed invisible to the naked eye. The deep sea was no longer beneath her feet, but a desolate land.
After an unknown amount of time spent chasing and fleeing, they had finally led the monster to the edge of the land. However, the monster did not come ashore. Instead, it stayed quietly in the shallow water, continuously launching energy tentacles to harass Bai Ling and Sasha.
After coming ashore, Sasha had instructed Yang and Shuang to take the Black Wing and quickly escape the storm’s range to seek reinforcements from headquarters, while she stayed behind to continue stalling the monster.
They couldn’t leave completely, otherwise, it would be difficult to keep track of the monster’s movements. Only by keeping it here was a good idea felt like the best approach.
However, Sasha had almost lost her combat capability. After such a long battle, even if divine arts consumed less energy, she should have been drained by now.
“A day, perhaps? I don’t have a watch, and I can’t see the sky right now,” Sasha replied. “I’m sorry, I’m holding you back.”
Bai Ling’s expression was calm, she didn’t comment on Sasha’s words. In her eyes, Sasha was actually a pretty good helper, but such a long battle was indeed asking too much.
Anyone else in Sasha’s place wouldn’t have performed any better.
“Hey, be careful!” Sasha, being carried, wasn’t completely idle. She was acting as Bai Ling’s second pair of eyes, monitoring everything threatening.
Bai Ling immediately came to an abrupt halt in the air. The moment she did, a black energy beam as thick as a person’s torso streaked past her. If she hadn’t stopped, she would have taken a direct hit.
As a representative of high attack power and paper-thin defense, taking a hit like that would spell disaster for her.
“It’s an attack from the monster’s main body. How troublesome. Shouldn’t this thing be in a berserk state? How is it so good at ambushing?” Sasha muttered with annoyance.
The ambush failed, and the monster controlled its tentacles to attack again.
With only one hand available, Bai Ling found it difficult to deal with the tentacles. She frowned and slashed at the encircling tentacles. Unlike before when it was as easy as cutting grass, these tentacles seemed to have become tougher.
Even if the tentacles were cut off, they would regenerate the next moment. Bai Ling was currently unable to completely deal with them.
*Whoosh,* another beam of terrifying power shot out from the direction of the sea, forcing Bai Ling to dodge. The tentacles took this opportunity to press their attack again, increasing Bai Ling’s pressure.
If this continued, she would eventually be hit. Bai Ling’s brow furrowed. She wanted to break through, but it was now an almost impossible feat.
If only Leticia were here, she thought to herself.
That girl, who was proficient in both offense and defense and wielded a large amount of AOE damage, was more suited to dealing with this monster. Bai Ling was better at single-target elimination. It was really asking too much for her to fight against these endless creatures.
“Looks like you need my help.”
A familiar voice seemed to echo in her ears. Bai Ling shook her head. Was she hallucinating from fighting the monster too much?
How could Leticia possibly be here? She should have already returned to the demon realm, perhaps even gloating.
“It seems I’ve gone crazy. Does this monster have this kind of intelligence-lowering skill?”
Strange, why wouldn’t this voice stop? And the tone was so nostalgic.
“Miss Bai, hurry and dodge, dodge!” Sasha frantically patted Bai Ling’s cheek. “An attack is coming!”
Although the attack flying towards them wasn’t a black beam, but a large green fireball with a diameter of more than ten meters, judging by the distortion of the air around the fireball, its power was probably no less than the beam.
Bai Ling jolted back to her senses from her daze, but the fireball had already reached her. At this short distance, it was no longer enough for her to dodge.
The next moment, the fireball exploded.
The terrifying heat almost instantly vaporized the black tentacles surrounding Bai Ling, while Bai Ling remained unharmed amidst the flames.
Seeing the pale blue barrier enveloping her, Sasha breathed a sigh of relief, the lingering fear still present. She had almost thought she was going to die here.
After relaxing, she belatedly realized that there was no one among them who could cast such a large fireball, right?
Reinforcements? Were there reinforcements?
“…It’s…her…” Bai Ling looked at the blue barrier and suddenly flashed a brilliant smile.
The sea not far away began to churn. The monster seemed to have been disturbed. It temporarily gave up attacking Bai Ling and shifted most of its attention elsewhere.
“Finally made it,” Leticia said, standing in the air, her eyes fixed on the giant black shadow in the shallow sea. Only by seeing the monster with her own eyes could one understand how terrifying this thing was.
The magic resistance of those energy tentacles was incredibly high. If Leticia hadn’t added a bit of divine power, that large fireball wouldn’t have been able to clear the field at all.
The monster’s main body looked much stronger and more disgusting than the small monster that appeared in the city.
Xie said that the monster’s weakness was its head, but the monster’s head was too large. It couldn’t possibly have weaknesses everywhere, could it?
Moreover, in order to help Bai Ling break free, she had already attracted the monster’s attention. It was now impossible to ambush. Perhaps throwing a large magic spell directly onto the monster’s head would have been the right choice.
But since she had chosen to help Bai Ling break free first, Leticia wouldn’t regret it. Bai Ling’s situation was clearly more urgent. If her main damage dealer was in danger, she naturally had to save her.
There would always be opportunities for ambushes. If Bai Ling, this super combat power, met with an accident because of an ambush, it would be a loss far outweighing the gain, Leticia convinced herself.
A large number of black tentacles converged toward Leticia, but Leticia was no longer afraid of these things. A faint golden light flickered around her. As soon as these black tentacles got close, they would disappear in painful struggles.
Pure energy constructs were still too fragile in the face of divine power.
Casually throwing a few spells downwards, Leticia flashed and flew towards Bai Ling. They should meet up first.
The monster fumbled to block the spells that made it feel threatened. While it was dealing with these troublesome attacks, Leticia had already flown in front of Bai Ling.
“Yo, looks like I came at just the right time.”
“I thought you had already left.” Looking at the cute girl flying from the sky to her front, Bai Ling didn’t hesitate and stepped forward, hugging Leticia tightly.
“Hey, is this the time to hug me!” Leticia showed a helpless expression. They were still fighting the monster, couldn’t they save the kissing and hugging for later?
Why the rush? It’s not like there won’t be opportunities later.
Gently patting Bai Ling’s back, Leticia signaled Bai Ling to let her go quickly, but Miss Bai clearly had no intention of letting go.
“Let me hug you for a little longer, let me know I’m not dreaming.”
Upon hearing this, Leticia felt goosebumps all over her body. It was too cheesy, she couldn’t accept it. Besides, they still had a BOSS staring at them nearby. It wouldn’t just stand there idly.
“Hurry up and let go, there’s important business to attend to.”
As if to confirm Leticia’s words, the monster in the sea let out an angry roar, probably displeased with the couple showing off their affection in front of this old, stagnant sea monster.
The black tentacles, which had already retreated, surged forward again. Bai Ling let go of Leticia with an unhappy expression and gripped her sword again.
With Leticia by her side, she felt much less pressure. At least now, she could unleash her full strength without any worries.
“Now I’ve become a drag, it’s really annoying.” Looking at Bai Ling slaughtering her way through the tentacles, Sasha’s eyes became vacant. She recalled how they had been chased and beaten just now.
The moment Bai Ling put her down, her combat power increased so much. Doesn’t this mean that their predicament was entirely due to her?
Realizing this, Sasha’s world suddenly turned gray. She thought she could help, but instead, she only caused trouble. It would have been better if she had retreated with Yang and Shuang first, so she wouldn’t be holding Bai Ling back.
“Don’t make that face. You’ve done more than enough in this situation. After all, not everyone can be as powerful as me and Bai Ling.” Seeing Sasha’s unhappiness, Leticia said, holding up her magic with one hand and turning her head to speak to Sasha, “She’s not very good at protecting others, but protecting you is just a simple task for me.”
In any case, Leticia was going to cast a shield on herself in this environment to prevent her magic from being interrupted, so expanding the shield to protect Sasha wouldn’t take much effort.
What’s more, after these tentacles slammed into the turtle shell Leticia had cast several times, they gave up attacking here. In the monster’s almost nonexistent mind, Bai Ling was clearly a greater threat.
Thus, Leticia stood inside the shield, like a machine gun, raining down various magic spells.
The quantity and quality of the magic spells made Sasha sigh. Although this Demon Lord seemed frivolous in her daily life, in terms of combat power alone, she was indeed worthy of the title of Demon Lord.
“This isn’t a solution either. These tentacles aren’t the monster’s main body. If we go on a rampage here, we won’t be able to damage the monster at all, will we?” Leticia muttered to herself, while supporting Bai Ling outside with her magic, who was attracting the monster’s attention.
Her voice wasn’t that quiet, and Sasha naturally heard Leticia’s complaint. To this, the divine emissary小姐 replied that there was no better solution than this at the moment.
“With just the three of us, Your Majesty Leticia, do you think we can kill that monster?”
Sasha’s question plunged Leticia into silence. Admittedly, if she staked her life, Leticia felt there was still a chance to defeat the monster, but she didn’t come here to die.
“It’s hard to say. I still don’t know Bai’s limit. Maybe in the end, she’ll just cut down that monster with a single sword?” Leticia made a small joke.
“I wish it were that simple, but it’s very difficult for Miss Bai’s sword energy to harm a monster whose main body is underwater,” Sasha sighed. Bai Ling had tried to force her way through before, but the sea was the monster’s strongest barrier.
The sea manipulated by the monster acted like an extremely sturdy shield. Even Bai Ling, who had reached the pinnacle of offense, couldn’t harm a single strand of the monster (if it had any).
Sigh, it’s true. No wonder the monster was unwilling to come ashore. Perhaps Bai Ling had given it some psychological trauma.
It intended to kill Bai Ling first and then come ashore to wreak havoc.
“What we need to do now is to keep the monster here. Creatures that threaten the entire world are also targets that we, the God Seats, need to deal with. As long as Yang and Shuang can send out the reinforcement message, headquarters will send people to support us soon.”
“Then how much time will it take? Your headquarters is quite far from here, isn’t it?” Leticia tilted her head to look at Sasha. This time would be calculated in days at least, wouldn’t it?
Fighting for several days in this godforsaken place made Leticia feel a slight pressure.
Although her magic reserves should be sufficient, and the current combat intensity wasn’t too high, if they continued to consume energy like this, even if her magic was enough, her mental power would be depleted.
Moreover, Leticia could feel that the entire space was permeated with strange fluctuations that could pollute the mind. This would undoubtedly accelerate her mental power consumption.
She had already summoned her large sun umbrella, which could effectively prevent her mind from being polluted, but it would also accelerate the consumption of mental power. Fighting a war of attrition was probably not a good idea.
“Well, if they send people to support us immediately after receiving the reinforcement message, it will take about a day and a half to arrive,” Sasha said, scratching her head. Recently, the God Seats’ attention had been mostly focused on the west, and the combat personnel left in the east were very, very few.
A day and a half? Leticia raised an eyebrow. This time was indeed a bit ambiguous. If it were purely defensive, she could definitely last a day and a half, but her own combat effectiveness after a day and a half was uncertain.
“A day and a half… I don’t think Miss Bai can last for a day and a half.” Looking at Bai Ling, who still showed no signs of fatigue, Leticia muttered softly.
Although she muttered softly, her voice was loud enough for Sasha to hear clearly.
“Indeed, Miss Bai’s consumption will be very high if she fights like this. Why don’t we let her retreat first and focus on defense?”
